Brand Project Manager - Contractor

About the role

The Brand Studio team at Kit is seeking a skilled project manager and producer to take ownership of how creative work gets triaged, scheduled, and executed. This role exists to bring structure and flow to a creative team.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of request triage and ensure briefs are complete before they reach a Brand Studio team member.
• Shadow sprint planning for the first sprint of the month, then take over running point on it for the second sprint.
• Keep sprints on track by surfacing blockers early and making confident recommendations when tradeoffs are needed.
• Identify patterns in the types of work coming in and propose additions to the brand asset menu where repeatable work types have emerged.
• Use Claude Code (or similar) to build improvements to our internal capacity planning web app, taking a systems-building approach to scheduling and planning problems rather than patching things manually.
• Continue refining and improving the internal capacity planning web app and sprint planning processes based on how the team actually uses it and how work actually gets done.
• Take on additional project management tasks as assigned, and stay responsible for holding team members accountable to deadlines, surfacing blockers, making necessary tradeoffs, and helping the team to increase their output.

Requirements

• Managing creative or production workflows — intake, briefing, scheduling, and delivery.
• Communicating clearly about scope, capacity, and tradeoffs with both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Running sprint or project planning across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Keeping projects moving in a remote, async environment without needing to be the loudest voice in the room.
• Working fluently in Notion (or a comparable project management tool) and understanding how to build systems other people actually use.
• Comfortable using tools like Claude Code (or similar) to build or improve internal tools that support planning and scheduling — you don't need to be an engineer, but you should be excited to vibe-code your way to a better system.
• Working cross-functionally with marketers, designers, and creative directors to align on scope and timelines.
• Comfortable working in a remote-first environment where documentation and async communication do a lot of the heavy lifting.

Qualifications

• Calm when things are chaotic — you don't absorb the team's stress, you help reduce it.
• Communicate proactively and don't wait to be asked for a status update.
• Hold a firm position on scope or capacity without being combative about it — you lead with data and a recommendation, not just a "no."
• Spot problems before they become fires and say something early.
• Document your thinking and keep others in the loop without being asked.
• Build a small tool that solves a recurring problem rather than solving it manually every time.